PAN-OS - SAML Relying Party Configuration - RSA Ready Implementation Guide
This article describes how to integrate PAN-OS with RSA Cloud Access Service (CAS) using Relying Party.
Configure CAS
Perform these steps to configure CAS using Relying Party.
Procedure
- Click Authentication Clients > Relying Parties.
- On the My Relying Parties page, click Add a Relying Party.
- On the Relying Party Catalog page, click Add for Service Provider SAML.
- On the Basic Information page, enter the name for the application in the Name field and click Next Step.
- On the Authentication page, choose RSA manages all authentication.
- In the 2.0 Access Policy for Authentication drop-down list, select a policy that was previously configured, and click Next Step.
- Under Data Input Method, choose Enter Manually.
- Scroll down to the Service Provider section and provide the details in the following format.
- Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL: https://<PANOS-hostname OR IP address
- Service Provider Entity ID: Enter the same Service Provider Entity ID entered in PANOS.
- Under the Message Protection section, choose IdP signs entire SAML response.
- Scroll down to the User Identity section and select the following values:
- Identifier Type: emailAddress
- Property: mail
- Click Save and Finish.
- Click Publish Changes and wait for the operation to be completed.
After publishing, your application is enabled for SSO. - Under My Relying Parties, navigate to the newly created one.
- In the Edit drop-down list, choose Metadata.
Configure PAN-OS
Perform these steps to configure PAN-OS.
Procedure
- Log in to the PAN-OS admin web interface with the PAN-OS default admin user or any other admin https://IP-address-of-PANOS.
- Navigate to Device > Server Profiles > SAML Identity Provider.
- Click Import to create the SAML Identity Provider.
- Specify the Profile Name.
- Under the Identity Provider Configuration section:
- Browse the Identity Provider Metadata file, which we exported from CAS configuration.
- Clear the Validate Identity Provider Certificate checkbox.
- Click OK.
The SAML Identity Provider is created and displays the Identity Provider and SSO Service URL details as per the metadata file. - Navigate to Device > Authentication Profile and create a profile as follows:
- Under the Authentication Profile > Authentication section, specify the name.
- In the Type drop-down list, select SAML.
- In the IdP Service Profile drop-down list, select the SAML Identity Provider in the previous steps.
- Under User Attributes in SAML Messages, specify email as Username Attribute.
- Navigate to the Advanced tab and click Add.
- Select the user from the list and click OK to complete the Authentication Profile.
- Click Commit to save the configurations on PAN-OS.
The configuration is complete.
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